Why Did Hitler's Rise To Power

Essay: Why Did Hitler Rise To Power? Monday 14th March 2016

From 1928 to 1932, the Nazi party rose from 12 seats in the Reichstag to 230. This development was achieved due to many corrupt, malicious and scheming tactics and plans; all made my one man, Adolf Hitler. Hitler exploited the Germans desperation and despondency after World War I and the Wall Street Crash, when Germany was desperately seeking for a savior to dig them out of the deep hole the Weimar Government had launched them into, and Hitler manipulated and brainwashed the Germans to believe that he could be just that. This essay will entail a few of the many strategies Hitler used to climb his way to the top.

As poverty and unemployment in Germany increased, the confidence in

Germany was in need of a Chancellor so Hitler applied and was denied by President Hindenberg, who thought Hitler was untrustworthy and unworthy of the role of Chancellor so instead appointed Von Papen for the job. Von Papen was liable and did whatever Hindenburg demanded. Von Schleider desperately wanted to be Chancellor but the slot was taken, however this did not stop Von Schleicher. Schleider was the leader of German army, therefore had a lot of power. Schleider used this power to threaten Von Papen. If Von Papen didn't resign, Schleider threatened to order the army to attack the Reichstag, Papen resigned without a fight and Von Schleicher became Chancellor. This did not last long as the people in the government resented his ideas and wouldn't support them, which resulted in him resigning. So now Hindenberg was without a Chancellor and the only man left for the job was Hitler. Hindenberg came to a false assumption that he could control Hitler, so Hitler became Chancellor in 1933, Hindenburg's fantasy soon came to an end. Although Hitler was now Chancellor, he did not have enough power to do as he wished as all of his ideas had to be overseen agreed with by a higher power. This was no longer the case when President Hindenberg died.

Hitler's biggest threat was Ernst Rohm, a man that controlled the SA, which consisted of 400,000 men. Rohm was becoming more popular in Germany and Hitler saw this as competition so of course Hitler had to kill him; not himself but he sculpted together a plan to diminish any form of threat. Hitler sent his own men out to arrest and murder Rohm, Von Schleicher and any other potential opposition. This was called the Knight of Long Knives, because Hitler hadn't directly stabbed all these slaughtered men in the back, instead he had slyly used his strategic tactics to get rid of them. After the SA joined the SS (Hitlers Army), which strengthened the German Army. All the soldiers were forced to swear an oath of allegiance to Hitler. Hitler was now in full control of the two biggest armies in Germany, as his right-hand man; Goering was the General of the